<date> can be one of the following formats:
today
yesterday
tomorrow
<last|past|prev|current|this|coming|next><week|month|year>
<last|past|prev|coming|next><x><minutes|hours|weeks|months|years>
january|february|march|april|may|june|july|august|september|october|november|december
jan|feb|mar|apr|may|jun|jul|aug|sep|oct|nov|dec
sunday|monday|tuesday|wednesday|thursday|friday|saturday
sun|mon|tue|wed|thu|fri|sat
unknown
year
month/year
day/month/year

For example, I am trying to find files created or modified on 2015-10-31

How are dates displayed on your computer? 31/10/2015? 10/31/2015? 2015/10/31?

Type in dates in the same format as how they are displayed on your computer.

Please try searching for:
dm:31/10/2015

Use / to separate day/month/year.

I even tried this synatx with no results: 1:* dc:last1hours. I entered it in the search bar. The only search that works is wild cards or typing normal file names.

1:* should not match anything, what are you trying to search for here?

Note: Please make sure regex is disabled from the Search menu, search functions will not work when regex is enabled.
Please try the Everything 1.4 beta and look at Search -> Advanced Search... to help with search syntax.

This is VERY basic, but I had trouble with it so someone else might. I couldn't seem to get Everything to "sort by date" and I was going crazy. Turns out it was the way I had E set up. When I made ALL the Date Columns VISIBLE (modified, created, accessed and recently changed), the date-related functions worked. (Answer to an un-asked question, I guess.)

I have a specific search which brings to light some questions that may not be clear to other users too

The uncertainty regards:
1. operator priority e.g. regexexpression works but child:regex:expression does not
2. with OR syntax expressionSPACE|SPACEexpression and expression|expression seems to be equal
3. use of brackets <> can operators be inside brackets?
4. use of child: parameter ... it seems child:pic: doesn't work?
5. using OR statements in regex filename search as a workaround?
6. do operators only act on subsequent expressions until the next space e,g, is child:*.jpg|child:*.png the same as child:<*.jpg|*.png> the same and different to child:*.jpg child:*.png

Probably some basic coding issues lacking for me.

I am looking for:
- a list of folders
- that contain pictures
- where the pictures have names with 2016 2017 or 2018 in the filename (e.g. Screenshot_20161202.png or 20170104_123320.jpg)
- which may be in folders labelled in spanish or english
- excluding some folders

I might add an UI option to do this, for the next version of Everything I support two wildcard functions, one that is used in your common open file dialog, eg: *.txt and another which support character ranges with [], # = digit and backslash escapes (eg: \u00C6).
However, this is currently only used when searching content with the wildcard: modifier, such as wildcard:content:"[abc]*[123]"

In my experience there are VERY FEW people who know how to do Cmd.exe environment string replacement like the above.

FYI: I have long (20+ years) had a comp.cmd or comp.bat to feed "n" (No I don't want to compare more files) into comp.exe.
Stupid comp.exe was one of the poorest designed DOS/cmd programs ever. In DOS days, I used to just go in with a Hex editor and bypass the call to the "question" subroutine by changing one byte, but that's impractical today when working on dozens or tens of thousands of network computers.)

BTW: Another useful trick is to have a "file of Ns": In my Bat directory are 2 files named N and N.txt which have 64K lines of nothing but N (for No) to allow redirection to commands that ask questions but which only accept switches for Y(es) or have no switch at all to avoid such questions. Xcopy is in the former category, comp in the latter.

This is VERY basic, but I had trouble with it so someone else might. I couldn't seem to get Everything to "sort by date" and I was going crazy. Turns out it was the way I had E set up. When I made ALL the Date Columns VISIBLE (modified, created, accessed and recently changed), the date-related functions worked. (Answer to an un-asked question, I guess.)

Thank you!

This was driving me mad with something similar when doing a X:\Ample\Path folder: dc:last240hours search that displayed no results despite dozens of folders having been created in that span. Decided to enable every column to be displayed and make note of it for future installations because I will likely forget this perceived oddity (but perhaps useful oddity should eliminating a column help to narrow the results).

I need to go through something similar to a de-duping process but without mirror duplicates. I just need to get rid of some obsolete versions.

All the files I need to deal with are in directories of the same name, but on many different drives (some indexed by EFU, plus local drives in the regular DB). I need Everything to display the contents of every directory called '\data - work' so that I have the contents of all '\data - work' directories displayed at once for easy management.

Is this possible? I've read all help but can't figure it out.

Edit: Dumbest post ever. All I needed was "\data - work\" with the double quotes to escape spaces.

Regex is a short of "Regular expressions", and this is an advanced way for searching (requires some learning though).
Anyway, you need to look at the "match" options under
Menu|Search
and ensure that all "match" options are disabled.

I have a folder named 'nd', but when I search with 'folder:nd', it brings up all sorts of folders containing words like 'index' and 'windows'. How can I search for whole folder names instead of partial folder names? Thanks!

I have a folder named 'nd', but when I search with 'folder:nd', it brings up all sorts of folders containing words like 'index' and 'windows'. How can I search for whole folder names instead of partial folder names? Thanks!

I have a folder named 'nd', but when I search with 'folder:nd', it brings up all sorts of folders containing words like 'index' and 'windows'. How can I search for whole folder names instead of partial folder names? Thanks!

Thanks, that works! Unfortunately, the page you sent me to doesn't say anything about folder names: "Match the whole filename or match anywhere in the filename." Maybe that ought to be updated to something like "Match the whole filename (or folder name) or match anywhere in the filename (or folder name)."

The problem I am facing is that I am searching 4 or 5 hard drives full of audio in random places. Most are MP3 with proper ID3 tags for various attributes, and specifically, GENRE. What I am trying to do is get the *genre=house or genre=tech house* to return results.